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Eva Luna (Mass Market Paperback)

by Isabel Allende (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Bantam; 1REP edition (Aug 1 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553173308
ISBN-13: 978-0553280586
ASIN: 0553280589
Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #80,100 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly

A woman makes love to an Indian dying of snakebite, miraculously restoring him to life and engendering a daughter named Eva"so she will love life." Thus begins Allende's latest novel, a magnificent successor to The House of the Spirits and Of Love & Shadows. Set in a Latin American country, it relates Eva's picaresque adventures. Brought up in the house of an eccentric doctor devoted to mummifying corpses, where her mother is a servant, Eva is left an orphan at six. Her black godmother, or madrina , leases her as a servant to a series of bizarre households of metaphorical significance, the last of which she leaves in grand style upon emptying a government Minister's chamberpot over his head. Interleaved with Eva's story is her account of a certain Rolf Carle, with whom her life will become linkedshe tells of his youth in Nazi Austria and young manhood as a filmmaker in South America. Through a series of improbable and felicitous coincidences, Eva is taken under the wing of such exotic benefactors as a street urchin who becomes a guerrilla leader, a colorful whorehouse Madam, a kindly Turkish merchant and a stunningly beautiful transsexual. Like the author, Eva is a prodigious fabulist, weaving extraordinary tales that change reality at will, making it, as she says, easier to bear. Although the fabulist's art is seen as dangerously escapist, Allende's wonderful novel, crammed with the strange and fantastical, the sensuous and the erotic, also speaks powerfully in the cause of freedom. 40,000 first printing; BOMC and QPBC alternate.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother toils, and herself in service from an early age, the enchanting and ever-enchanted Eva Luna escapes oppression through story telling. Rolf Carle flees Germany for South America, and ultimately works as a documentary film maker, to escape childhood memories of burying the concentration camp dead. The two are brought together by guerrilla Huberto NaranjoEva's lover and a subject for Rolf's camerain this dense, opulent novel that serves as a metaphor for redemption through creative effort. In her earlier works ( The House of the Spirits, LJ 4/15/85; Of Love and Shadows, LJ 5/1/87), Allende's rich language occasionally shaded into overripeness; but here the prose is more tightly controlled, the characterizations defter. Her best work yet. BOMC alternate. Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars CAPTIVATING, Jan 23 2002

By	Bonita L. Davis (Decatur, Georgia) - See all my reviews

Conceived on her father's deathbed and almost strangled to death by her umbilical cord, the baby who emerged would become the woman, Eva Luna. Her birth is incredible and her life is even more so as Eva spins for us her story and the story of those who impacted her life.

Isabel Allende captivates the reader by having us take a glimpse of the life and times of Eva Luna, a child whose life is so surreal and incredible to the point where fact and fantasy become one and the same. Eva's voice sweeps us into the dark world of perverts, undesirables and revolutionaries. Through Eva's stories you get a closer look at a society rotten at its core while masquerading as a democracy.

Come with Eva, as a little girl where she plays with a stuffed puma owned by a mad-man who uses Indians for his embalming experiments. Watch as this orphaned girl is "sold" off by her strange godmother who believes in the gods of her ancesteral Africa and the saints of Catholicism. Watch Eva as she grows from childhood to adolescense to an adult who has to confront the reality of love and revolution.

EVA LUNA is a lyric tale whose language draws you immediately into the life of the character and her supporting cast. You feel a deep empathy for this woman and you see through her eyes the contradictions that life has to offer. Allende has given us an exceptional work that explores both the spiritual, political and sensual side of a woman caught up in the stream of chaos in her South American country. Come, let Eva tell you a story, her story and you will find yourself unable to tear yourself away from her amazing tale.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Falls Short Of Other Works, Jun 25 2004

By	Bentley (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews

This novel definitely follows Allende's form of vast and varied characters, a plot covering an epic length of time, and Dickensian twists and turns.
But the main character is not as interesting or complex Greg Reeves in "The Infinite Plan," and the most areas of the plot simply lack the intense realism of "Plan" and "The House of Spirits."
The references to the metaphysical, world are devoid of the absolute wonder caused by works such as "Spirits." And worst of all, her prose, despite having Margeret Sayers Peden translating once again, does not have the same poetic ring.
There are, however, still moments in the novel that seem to illuminate any perception of life as dark or dull, thus giving relief to the low-effort and sometimes repetitive nature of the rest of the book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good one by Allende, Nov 2 2003

By	Peggy Vincent "author and reader" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Sometimes, actually pretty often, Isabel Allende's writing overflows with her own love of language, and you kinds want her to dial it down a little. Not so much, however, in Eva Luna. The writing is more controlled; the book reads as tho an editor actually paid some attention to it before sending it to press.
Child of a servant, the beautiful and enchanting Eva Luna escapes into lyrical storytelling when life gets too tough to bear. She and Rolf, a film maker, are brought together through Eva's guerrilla lover. The result is a lovely piece of literature that works as a metaphor for salvation through creativity.
It's a good one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Khalia
Eva Luna reigns as one of my favorite novels. It simply ooozes tapestry of imagery, adventure, and vivacity. Every year, I read this novel at least once. Lisez davantage

Published on Oct 16 2003 by Khalia

4.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Book
I'm an editor, have a degree in English literature, and lived in Mexico and in the Southwest for 20 years. Latin American literature is often whimsical. Lisez davantage

Published on Aug 10 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars I. Allende books are PITIFUL 0 stars
As it happened with The House of Spirits nor depth or intelligence in the story is to be found. Some ideas put together at random with a disrespectful (because it`s just hollow... Lisez davantage

Published on April 2 2003 by Vasco A. Lopes